‘Philosophy and Tyranny’

Impressions of Selective Breeding and The Birth of Philosophy, by Costin Alamariu, 2023, 358 pages

I write this tonight, after a far better man than I, an Eskimo of 87 years, who honorably retired from the U.S. Army and has been married to the same woman for 65 years, took me with him to his medical appointment, and explained to the staff that I was his “son-in-law.”

I sit here humbled while he preps our coffee pot for the coming dawn, listening to hi…